Waiting having truth:
Shining expansion, determination
auspicious
Harvest: to cross the great stream

The great image says:
Clouds rise up to heaven: Waiting for the rain
to stop
The noble one drinks and eats and reposes relaxed

Water
Heaven

day 3 of a yang moon

Creativity
is not obedient. One cannot call for it and expect it to be there. But
waiting in an open and quiet way makes the clouds
clear up, and
the sun of growth appear again.

Many
things come by waiting, rather than by acting. As if one opens a cosmic
door for them to enter.
One’s
own attitude is the door, if one waits in the right feeling, one acts at
the right time. But there is also something inexplicable, which makes
things happen without any action on them.

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It
seems hex.5 is not about waiting for rain, but waiting for the rain to
stop (see Marshall, The Mandate of Heaven).

Xu1.
The above part, YU3, is 'rain', the lower part, ER2,
a beard. But in Wang-HongYuan I found two apparently older
characters. One seems a man and drops or something like that, the other
one a man standing below rain. I think they both are a picture of the
rain falling. Maybe the man with drops is a person getting wet.
XU1: Need,
require, demand; expenses, provisions, necessaries; hesitation, delay,
tarry, wait, waiting with confidence, waiting for rain to begin, waiting
for something one needs; essential, necessary; early glutinous rice with
small grains.
Pronounced NO4: weak, hesitating, supple (leather).
YUAN3: supple, flexible, incomplete.
NUAN4: weak, timid.
Interchangeable with another character [Mathew’s 2847] with the same
meanings,
but also 'a beard', Ritsema +Karcher: hairgrowing.

9 at
3: Waiting in the mud. It will attract bandits.
Feelings have a tendency to fall asleep when they have to wait. Sometimes an impulsive,
maybe foolish, act is better than becoming dull. Dullness can cause much greater disaster than an occasional foolishness.
(Changes to hex.60)

Above
6: Entering the cave. There are unexpected visitors. Three people come. Respect them. The end is auspicious.
The spirit can find what he waits for by shutting itself off from
external influences, and by expecting the magical, the unconceivable. Then
the miracle can enter, and bring a solution.
So if you are at a loss, then just wait. Your mind has
many realms you do not even know about.
(Changes to hex.9)

9 at
2: Waiting on the sandbank. There is some talk. The completion is
auspicious.Don't blindly
follow the ideas or comments of other people, but stick to your own
judgment. If you don't know, then wait until you do. Make your own decisions, whatever anyone advises you. It
is your life, if you enter the river because someone else tells you it
is safe, it is you who eventually drowns.
(Changes to hex.63)

9 at
5: Waiting with liquor and food. Determination auspicious.Every situation asks for its own appropriate
attitude. When you eat, then enjoy eating, when you work, enjoy it, when
you wait, enjoy it. Give every aspect of life an honorful place in your
mind. Positive living summons positive forces, negative living drains life
of all its energy and worth.
(Changes to hex.11)

Initial
9 : Waiting at the field altar. Harvest: benefit of steadiness. No
fault.
People need a place with culture, but without any demands, for mutual contact. It becomes the center of their country, their people. They will know where they belong and feel at home, and who they are.(Changes
to hex.48)

6 at
4: Waiting in the blood. Get out of the cave.Don’t wait and stay in a
place not fit for you. A bad place, a wrong mind-set, low company. It is
often difficult to take the plunge, but if you don’t, you spoil your time,
your mind, maybe even your life.
If everything is wrong, then how can a good thing come about?
(Changes to hex.43)

The Sabian Symbols for the
hexagram-lines

9
at 3 corresponds to b
3: A
woman having her hair bobbedOff
is off, so be happy with it- and it is not even final

Above
6 corresponds to h 3: A
deserter from the navy

9
at 2 corresponds to `
3: The
garden of the Tuileries (Paris)Every
city has a place where everyone parades, hangs around and discusses
politics, cars and clothes.

9
at 5 corresponds to f
3: Two
men playing chess

Initial
9 corresponds to ^ 3: The
cameo profile of a man in the outline of his country

6
at 4 corresponds to d 3: The
dawn of a new day, everything changedYou won’t see the new day in a dark cave

For the meaning of Eminent
- expansion. Harvest - determination click HERELine 1. The 'field altar' can also be the outskirts.
'Steadiness': name of hex.32
Line 2. The Tuileries in Paris was the scene where 'tout-Paris' came to
parade, sit on the benches and discuss politics.

"Everything comes to the one who waits". It is a
Chinese proverb and it does not mean to stay sitting and expect. Make
your mind open for it to happen and go on living. When the moment comes
that it might happen, it finds in you a fertile field to receive it -
and it will happen.
It is a frame of mind which makes everything happen, not
just one specific thing. It means living every moment as it is, without
a program but open for life.
In the MaWangDui I Ching the name of this hexagram means a
silk garment for the winter sacrifice. Like celebrating Christmas:
opening your mind for the good things of winter, for a time of darkness
and cold, but also of reflection and togetherness if you are open for
it.